Hose-supporter



F. D. GRAVES. HOSE suPPoRTEH.

APPLICATION FILED 1ULY30, 1920. 1,374,009-, PatentedApr. 5,1921.

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FRED D. GRAVES, 0F OWEGO, NEW'V YORK.

HOSE-SUPPORTER.

Application filed July 30, 1920. Serial No. 400,135.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I Finn) D. GRAVES, a citizen of the United tates, and a resident of Owego, in the county of rfioga and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Hose-Supporter, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in hose supporters and particularly to a new form of button carrying backing plateand a new method of securing the tape of a hose supporter within the backing plate.

An object of the invention is to provide a hose supporter which results in a saving of tape and a hose supporter in which the tape may be readily threaded through the backing plate.

A still further object is to provide a device of the character stated which will be practical and durable in use and at the same time comparatively cheap to manufacture.

Vlith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings;

Figure l is a view in front elevation illustrating my improved hose supporter.

Fig. 2 is a view in longitudinal section of the same.

Fig. 3 is a view in front 'elevation ofthe backing plate and button before the plate has been compressed to confine the tape therein.

Fig. 4 is a view in longitudinal section of the same.

Referring in detail to the drawings, l represents my improved backing plate which preferably comprises a 'piece of relatively thin and bendable metal. A button 2 is riveted or otherwise secured to the intermediate portion of the backing plate 1.

rlhe plate l is provided with a pair of parallel slits 3. The slits are loca-ted adjacent the ends of the plate and the intermediate portion 4 of the plate between the slits is initially laterally oset from the rest of the plate as shown clearly in Fig. 4.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

By thus offsetting the central portion of the plate the slits 3 (which were the plate flat, would not be of suicient width to permit a tape to be threaded through them) forni in eEect a pair of alinedslots through which a tape 5 may be readily threaded.

In assembling the device, one end of the tape 5 is positioned in front of the plate l and passed through the upper slot 3, thence in rear of the plate and around the lower end thereof and thence through its lower slot, and terminating between the back of the intermediate portion of the plate and the tape.

The central oset Aportion of the plate is tightly in the slits as illustrated clearly in- Fig. 2. The tape ris thus firmly secured to the backing plate so that there is no danger of the tape slipping or becoming accidentally withdrawn therefrom.

It is apparent that various slight changes and alterationsmight be made in the general form of the parts described without de- Y partingfrom my invention and hence I do not limit myself to the precise detail set forth but consider myself at liberty to make .such slight changes and alterations as fairly through the slit, and adapted to be pressed into the plane of the other portion of the plate to permit clamping action ofthe walls of the slits on'said tape.V

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